The economic effects of the coronavirus are being felt by many companies across Europe, leading some to consider how well their businesses are shaped to meet future challenges. In this webinar, Ius Laboris lawyers from France, Germany, Sweden and Austria ...

The Austrian Federal Administrative Court has recently annulled the first administrative penalty imposed by the Austrian Data Protection Authority based on the new provisions of the GDPR due to procedural irregularities. more

We are very proud that our founding partner Georg Schima is ranked amongst the top experts in Dispute Resolution and Litigation – Austria in the most recent “Chambers Global 2020” Directory /Band 4. Chambers review says: Georg Schima is well ...

In the current magazine Training Birgit Vogt-Majarek examines practical questions and problems in the enforcement of post-contractual competition clauses. https://www.magazintraining.com/durchsetzbarkeit-von-konkurrenzklauseln/

On the occasion of the company lawyer’s congress 2019 on 8.10.2019, Valerie Toscani gives a lecture on “The liability of GmbH-managers and authorized signatories – legal framework of liability and how to avoid it”. This high-caliber event is aimed specifically ...

On July 5, 2019, Thomas Starlinger will hold a seminar on Austrian and European strategies for the energy industry as part of the imh slectureseries “Law for the Energy Industry” with the following contents: Mission2030 – Importance of climate and ...

This country-specific Q&A provides an overview to tax laws and regulations that may occur in Austria. This Q&A is part of the global guide to Corporate Governance. For a full list of jurisdictional Q&As visit http://www.inhouselawyer.co.uk/practice-areas/corporate-governance/

On 13.6.2019, Natalie Hahn will hold a lecture on “Do’s and Don’ts in Social Media & Co” as part of the “Ausbildertag 2019”. Vocational training presents numerous challenges to training companies and trainers in practice. This symposium for trainers will ...

As part of the imh seminar “The art of exposing lies – interrogation techniques for in-house practice” Natalie Hahn on 12.9.2019 speaks about employment law issues such as admissibility of control and monitoring of employees, determine facts, dismissal / suspension, ...

The annual trend lawyer ranking lists the largest Austrian law firms and the 250 most outstanding and best lawyers. Georg Schima achieved 3rd place among employment law experts. Trend 19/2919, S 46 ff; https://sms.law/wp-content/uploads/Trendartikel.pdf

Highly-interesting recent analysis on “Monitoring in the workplace” of 41 Ius laboris firms – including Austria (www.sms.law – Birgit Vogt-Majarek) – explaining the rules on monitoring in the different countries and examining how the law is coping with the growing ...

On April 24, 2019 Birgit Vogt-Majarek held a lecture at an international organisation in Austria. She was talking about data protection and shed light on various aspects as GDPR – an overview How to be compliant? Transfer of personal data ...

With Booking.basic, Booking.com tries to override the price sovereignty of hotels through third party providers. What could hoteliers do about it? Christian Mayer takes position in an article in the ÖGZ, the respected journal for gastronomy, hotels and tourism. https://www.gast.at/gast/es-geht-um-die-preishoheit-180823

As part of the Forum Family and Wealth Succession of the Austrian Society for Family and Property Law (ogfv.at) Georg Schima will give a lecture on 23.5.2019 under the aspect of wealth planning and estate succession – family, corporate and ...

On 16.4.2019 Constantin Eschlböck hosted together with the Forum for International Conciliation and Arbitration (www.fica-disputeresolution.com) a reception and discussion regarding “IS ISDS FIT FOR PURPOSE? – Investor State Dispute Settlement now and next” with great speakers: o Ben Beaumont, CArb, ...

Interesting article by Georg Schima in “Die Presse” on the most up-to-date Ministerial draft in the Law on Amendment to the Law on Companies Act 2019: The legislator decides on a minimum implementation of the directive’s provisions https://diepresse.com/home/recht/rechtwirtschaft/5608092/Neue-EURegeln-fuer-Boersenotierte_Minimalumsetzung-in-Oesterreich

On April 3, 2019 and Ocotober 8, 2019, Birgit Vogt-Majarek will give a lecture in the context of the ARS Annual Conference on Data Protection with the following main topics: Data processing and control from employment law perspective – Privacy ...

On the subject of Good Friday solution, intervention of the government in collective agreements and at most fundamental rights Georg Schima writes in “Der Standard” of 4.3.2019: www.pressreader.com/austria/der-standard/20190304/281767040523581

Birgit Vogt-Majarek and Sascha Springer wrote a survey for the Ius Laboris network (regarding Austria) what preparations are being made for Brexit in terms of immigration rules. https://theword.iuslaboris.com/hrlaw/brexit-survey/austria

The first event of the sms.law.talk series took place on 19.2.2019 and shed light on the planned implementation of the Shareholder Rights Directive (EU 2017/828), with particular attention to the related changes, in particular regarding the remuneration rules for ...

Birgit Vogt-Majarek and several other member firms of the worldwide Ius laboris alliance write about the status quo of official investigations, pending administrative criminal proceedings and so far imposed administrative fines based on the GDPR and the national legislation implementing ...

Article – amended by comments of colleagues from Ius laboris including Birgit Vogt-Majarek www.sms.law in Austria – on legal consequences of the Hashtag#MeTooMovement in Denmark, other European countries and outside Europe https://theword.iuslaboris.com/hrlaw/insights/denmark-legal-consequences-of-the-metoo-movement

Ius laboris Immigration and Global Mobility Update, including Austria (www.sms.law), showing the changes in global mobility and immigration from around the world over the past few months. https://theword.iuslaboris.com/hrlaw/insights/immigration-and-global-mobility-update_5

Birgit Vogt-Majarek writes about current Austrian European Court of Justice (ECJ) case on social security certificates. According to the ECJ such certificates will be considered valid except in cases of fraud. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=e5ceb9db-026b-4a5f-8b9c-0daa3acd308b

Maternity protection, parental leave, parental part-time work regulation and “Daddy Month” raise sensitive questions for employers: Which are the reporting, notification and proof duties during pregnancy? Which maternity models exist? What should be considered when re-entering? And can the employment be ...

On February 27, Natalie Hahn will hold a lecture on “Do’s and Don’ts in Social Media & Co” as part of the conference “Ausbilder 2019”. Vocational training presents numerous challenges to training companies and instructors in practice. This symposium for trainers ...

In a draft report published on 19.12.2018 on the situation of the Austrian natural gas flexibility and storage market for the Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism (BMNT), the regulatory authority comes to the following conclusion: The current competitive situation, ...

On January 25, 2019, Natalie Hahn gives a lecture in the context of the imh online seminar “(Anti) Discrimination and Equal Treatment in Labor Law” and speaks from the expert’s point of view on the following topics • Equal Treatment ...

Christian Mayer speaks about “Long-term contracts as an abuse of dominance in a concentrated sector?” – and what natural gas and beer have in common. https://energy-community.org/events/2018/12/COMC.html

The online career day at the MuseumsQuartier offers students, interns and young professionals an insight into the world of business, online marketing, design and web design as well as technology, software development and programming. At the expert workshop “Employment Contract” ...

Georg Schima, Valerie Toscani, Karina Moneta and Moritz Am Ende are supervising the team made up of Viviane Velisek, Daniel Scharf and Thomas Liegl. We bring the energy gained through the merger of two law firms fully into the Moot ...

7.11.2018 In an ORF interview in the Ö1 Mittagsjournal, Georg Schima explains from the point of view of employment law expert questions on the working time law amendment, twelve-hour day and voluntarily https://kurier.at/politik/inland/12-stunden-tag-rendi-sieht-in-negativfaellen-nur lace-the-iceberg

How can and should employers or executives react to employee misconduct. When is a warning, transfer or dismissal appropriate? How do you protect such measures legally? Birgit Vogt-Majarek discusses these and other topics in her full-day lecture by the FVH ...

On 2 October, the first “Annual Conference Group Law” took place within the framework of the Manz Law Academy. The lecturers devoted themselves to current corporate and tax law issues of corporate law. Georg Schima spoke to a very interested ...

Maternity leave, parental leave and parenthood raise sensitive questions for employers: What are reporting, notification and proof duties in pregnancy? Which maternity models are there? What should be considered when re-entering? And can the employment be terminated during a parental ...

The new Working Hours Act with the possibility of a twelve-hour working day and a 60-hour work week enters into force today. What does the law bring? Georg Schima answers in an interview with Judith Hecht. https://diepresse.com/home/wirtschaft/economist/5489183/Georg-Schima_Sozialstandards-werden-nicht-sinken

The guarantee of a paid holiday, in particular the Good Friday, only for members of certain churches is a discrimination, says the Advocate General of the ECJ. He speaks out against the Austrian regulation. Birgit Vogt-Majarek comments on this in ...

In the course of the current debate on the subject of working time law, Birgit Vogt-Majarek addresses the subject of voluntariness and different interests in the current issue of the Wiener Zeitung. https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/oesterreich/politik/971421_Wo-endet-die-Freiwilligkeit.html

To avoid mistakes and traps in work, Natalie Hahn gave valuable tips to HR managers and employers during her presentation at the “Personnel & Law” conference organized by the FVH FORUM VERLAG HERKERT GMBH.

As part of the ARS Supervisory Board Academy, Georg Schima gave a lecture on “Committees of the Supervisory Board”. Special questions such as relationship between plenum and committee, the delimitation of competencies, composition and flow of information, design options and ...

Maternity leave, parental leave and parenthood raise sensitive questions for employers: What are reporting, notification and proof duties in pregnancy? Which maternity models exist? What should be considered when re-entering? And can the employment be terminated during a parental leave ...

Vocational training presents numerous challenges to training companies and instructors in practice. At our trainer symposium you can share your experiences with other apprentices and benefit from new approaches, expert tips and best practice examples of vocational training at your ...

As part of the seminar organized by the imh GmbH, Natalie Hahn deals with topics such as “Which approach is required as an employer if employees on parental leave do not appear at their work on the second birthday of the child? ...

Blockchain is about more than just crypto currencies. With Blockchain, a technology has been created that will transform the whole way of thinking in a few years. As part of the DXC 360 ° event, Birgit Vogt-Majarek discussed this exciting ...

The latest edition of “Getting the Deal Through: Energy Disputes” has been published; Thomas Starlinger and Anita Trenkwalder from Starlinger Mayer contributed the chapter regarding Austria. The entire publication including the chapter on Austria is available online for subscribers at ...

At Energy Talks Ossiach 2017, Thomas Starlinger spoke on the topic “The legal framework in Germany-Austria-Switzerland is being reintroduced” on 2nd June at Stift Ossiach. His presentation provided insights into the EU Clean Energy Package and the room for interpretation ...

In its 2017 edition, Chambers Europe again ranked Christian Mayer amongst the best lawyers for Competition/European Law in Austria. „Christian Mayer of Starlinger Mayer Rechtsanwälte GmbH “has outstanding technical knowledge, he is always focused on our interests and represents them convincingly,” ...

One year passed by and we are delighted to announce, that in the 2017 Legal 500 raking we again managed to take our place amongst the top performers. In the section Energy we did not only hit a top ranking ...

The latest edition of “Getting the Deal Through: Environment & Climate Regulation” has been published; Thomas Starlinger and Verena Pell from Starlinger Mayer contributed the chapter regarding Austria. The entire publication including the chapter on Austria is available online for ...

„Legal Aspects of EU Energy Regulation – The Consolidation of Energy Law Accross Europe“, has been published by Professors Peter D Cameron and Raphael J Heffron in its second edition. Thomas Starlinger contributed the chapter regarding Austria. With almost 700 ...

The current JUVE ranking – arguably the most influential in the German speaking countries – recognizes Starlinger Mayer as “one of the most noticeable newcomers among the Austrian competition law firms”. We feel honoured by JUVE’s recommendation – and the qualification as “a ...

We are delighted that Starlinger Mayer is a new entrant in GCR’s rankings. We have been listed as recommended firm and according to the GCR survey “competitors have only praise for Mayer”. We are pleased about this acknowledgement. The full ranking is available at: http://globalcompetitionreview.com/features/article/41686/austrias-competition-bar/

Wiener Zeitung, in collaboration with Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers ranks Starlinger Mayer as “Austria’s Best Lawyers 2016” for energy law. We appreciate this award and will continue our mission – providing outstanding services to our clients.

In its 2016 edition, Chambers Europe again ranked Christian Mayer amongst the best lawyers for Competition/European Law in Austria. „Christian Mayer advises clients in the energy industry on merger control issues and all matters of antitrust. Peers say: “He is client and matter-focused. ...

We are excited that Legal 500 recommends SMR in Austria for “Projects and energy“; and we are particularly proud that Thomas Starlinger has been identified as the only “leading individual” in Austria in this practice area.

SMR is listed amongst the leading law-firms in the area Projects and energy. Thomas Starlinger (“outstanding and pragmatic energy lawyer”) has been named Leading Individual for the third year in a row. In the area EU and competition SMR is ...

At EPCON 2016, Thomas Starlinger speaks on the topic “Implementing the new Energy Efficiency Act” on 28th April at Schlosspark Mauerbach. His presentation will provide insights from practice into the new Guidelines Regulation and the room for interpretation contained therein.

As part of the “EU Energy Law and Policy Workshops” of the Florence School of Regulation, Thomas Starlinger speaks in Berlin on 5th February. His presentation will provide insights from practice into the topic of “pipelines and EU security: focus on ...

In the course of the annual IBA conference taking place in Vienna this year, Thomas Starlinger will speak on “Electricity Cross-Border Trade – European Union” as member of the panel on “Regulation of cross-border trade in electricity”. Regulation of cross-border trade in ...

The conference “Implementation of the Energy Efficiency Act” as part of the Energy Days 2015 will feature Thomas Starlinger speaking on the topic “Competition law and Compliance – What is legally possible when trading energy efficiency measures?”. The implementation of the Energy ...

Since 1997, the Energy Talks Ossiach aims to develop visions of a future humane oriented energy supply and to make the first steps to a concrete and visible implementation. This year’s topics are focussed on the challenges of the energy turnaround (Energiewende) – ...

In its 2015 edition, Chambers Europe again ranked Christian Mayer as “up and coming” in Competition/European Law: “Christian Mayer is best known for merger control filings, and has a particular sector focus on the energy industry. Interviewees say: ‘<i>He is thorough and ...

Thomas Starlingers contribution to the February edition of CEE Legal Matters, “The 2014 Austrian Energy Efficiency Act: New Challenges for Energy Suppliers in Austria”, is now accessible online. Read the full article at www.ceelegalmatters.com.

Starlinger Mayer attorneys-at-law is proud to announce that it sponsors the Vienna Forum on European Energy Law. The Vienna Forum is a joint initiative of the Florence School of Regulation and the Energy Community Secretariat. It is designed to highlight issues topical both ...